Soooooooooooooooo I’ve ordered a MemoryPalace and was thinking on how my workflow could be with it! And to be honest I would love to use the MP as final stage + encoder because of the HDMI outputs…

The problem if I do it this way, I won’t be able to use my Visual Cortex’s mixing+keying section (which I love and use a lot) , because cortex don’t have RGB LZX lvl outputs, so I can only use it as encoder final mixer… unless

I want to use the hidden treasures of the Cortex, pre-encoder expanders. So my plan is to build a small PCB of maybe 2hp or 4hp, that has the pre-encoder outputs of the mixer as a double buffered outputs (will be using those 6172 @pbalj that we purchased)

I wanted to share the idea to double check how feasible is, but also to know if any of you find it interesting, or if I’m missing something or a mistake).

With this expander, I can use VC super duper mixing capabilities and send it to the MP inputs!

Sorry for the super late response… I’ve been sick and bed the last week and couldn’t post anything.

The answering all of you, YES, I have a pcb design for this. Back in november I worked a bit on the breadboard and the crossed some conclussions with Lars on how to do this in the most interesting way.

The first approach was as @reverselandfill said just to use buffers, but Lars suggested to add attenuverters in the outputs to be able to invert the output signal of the cortex, also a LUMA OUT is super handy specially to patch in the alpha channel of the Memory Palace, here are some pics.

On the second schematic you made, the R4, R10 and R14 are not needed. I made almost the same design and Lars said those resistors are not needed but the signals come from a known world (impedance, levels, etc…) the pins could go directly in the non-inverting inputs of the op-amps.

RGB to Luma is very handy (and a cheap addition!) Someone should do YUV to RGB and RGB to YUV boards at some point. If you had UV, you could patch up a chroma keyer with some Castle logic and some C8s!